The Evolution of International Security Studies

Buzan, Barry; Hansen, Lene

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“…Por otro lado, también se entendió como un aliciente el que las universidades aceptaran estas relaciones por sus propios intereses; es decir, con objeto de no quedarse al margen de la consolidación disciplinar que disfrutaban los asuntos relativos a la seguridad internacional. Y es que estos estudios experimentaron una fuerte expansión tras el fin de la Guerra Fría (Buzan y Hansen, 2009). …”

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La promoción de la cultura de defensa en las universidades españolas: Evaluación de diseño del Programa de Colaboración del Ministerio de Defensa

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2018

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Resumen. Este artículo presenta una evaluación de diseño del Programa de Colaboración con las Universidades del Ministerio de Defensa, por ser el instrumento de planificación e implementación de la política pública de promoción de la cultura de defensa en ese ámbito. Desde el enfoque del análisis de políticas públicas, valora su racionalidad, pertinencia, coherencia interna y coherencia externa mediante diversas técnicas analíticas. Con esta investigación se pretende, por un lado, profundizar en el conocimiento de esta política y evaluar la alternativa formulada y, por otro, ofrecer una serie de recomendaciones de política, las cuales podrían ser de utilidad para los decisores públicos en la elaboración del nuevo Plan Director de Cultura de Defensa. Palabras clave: políticas públicas, evaluación, cultura de defensa, universidad, y política de defensa.The promotion of the culture of defence in spanish universities: Design evaluation of the collaboration Program of the Ministry of Defence Abstract. This article presents a design evaluation of the Collaboration with Universities Program of the Spanish Ministry of Defence, which represents the planning and implementation instrument for the public policy to promote the culture of defence in that field. From the perspective of the policy analysis, it assesses its rationality, relevance, internal coherence and external coherence through various analytical techniques. On the one hand, this research is intended to deepen the knowledge of this policy and to evaluate the formulated alternative and, on the other hand, to offer a series of policy recommendations which could be useful for public decision-makers in the preparation of the new Culture of Defence Director Plan.

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La promoción de la cultura de defensa en las universidades españolas: Evaluación de diseño del Programa de Colaboración del Ministerio de Defensa

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2018

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“…Once identified, these threats must be neutralized through the application of (mostly military) power and other resources. By adopting a "widened" conception of security the reports say that objective security threats include not only external military or political threats but also the negative effects of a changing climate, the spread of epidemics and pandemics, and the actions of non-state actors such as terrorist organizations and other armed groups (Buzan & Hansen, 2009). The reports thus contend that in this kind of general security climate the follow-on effects of genocide, regardless of where the crime is committed, poses pressing objective threats to Canada and the United States.…”

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Genocide Prevention and Western National Security: The Limitations of Making R2P All About Us

Hiebert

2015

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The case for turning R2P and genocide prevention from principle to practice usually rests on the invocation of moral norms and duties to others. Calls have been made by some analysts to abandon this strategy and "sell" genocide prevention to government by framing it as a matter of our own national interest including our security. Governments' failure to prevent atrocities abroad, it is argued, imperils western societies at home. If we look at how the genocide prevention-as-national security argument has been made we can see, however, that this position is not entirely convincing. I review two policy reports that make the case for genocide prevention based in part on national security considerations: Preventing Genocide: A Blue Print for U.S. Policymakers (Albright-Cohen Report); and the Will to Intervene Project. I show that both reports are problematic for two reasons: the "widened" traditional security argument advocated by the authors is not fully substantiated by the evidence provided in the reports; and alternate conceptions of security that would seem to support the linking of genocide prevention to western security-securitization and risk and uncertain-do not provide a solid logical foundation for operationalizing R2P. I conclude by considering whether we might appeal instead to another form of self interest, "reputational stakes", tied to western states' construction of their own identity as responsible members of the international community.

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“…Rather than the state or even the existence of humanity as a whole being primarily challenged by the threat of interstate war -and in particular, a thermo nuclear war -the focus turned to what might provide the new existential challenges to the state or the planet (Buzan and Hansen 2009). In reality, the challenges that were identified -terrorism, infectious diseases, environmental degradation, and so on -had been a fact of life (and death) in many parts of the world for some time.…”

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Debating Human Security in China: Towards Discursive Power?

Breslin

2014

Journal of Contemporary Asia

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While the concept of Human Security is sometimes dismissed in China as an irrelevant and alien "Western" concept, it has been the subject of serious academic debate -particularly in the mid-2000s, when a series of crises led to a rethinking of the nature of security in and for China. But like other theories and concepts which have been largely developed outside China, Human Security has been "Sinicised" to reflect Chinese contexts and preferences. In the process, the emphasis on the individual human being that is normally at the heart of Human Security discourses is typically replaced by a focus on the collective humankind, and Chinese analyses are often packaged together with broader understandings of non-traditional security. This results in a Chinese version of the concept where the state remains a key referent point and actor -indeed, the state is the key guarantor of Human Security, not a threat to it. And it is this Chinese definition, so the argument goes, that Chinese practices should be judged against, and not supposed universal definitions that in reality only reflect the history and values (and interests) of Western states.Key words: China, Human Security, global norms, universalism, security studies 2014 marked the twentieth anniversary of the publication of the UNDP Human Development Report that introduced the search for "a new concept of Human Security" (UNDP 1994, 3) that turned the focus of security from states to people, and saw the solutions to insecurity in "development, not arms (UNDP 1994, 1). The basic thrust of the Human Security (HS) agenda has often been simplified to the objective of attaining individual "freedom from fear and want." Within this emphasis on freedom from fear, there are implications for the nature of domestic political governance that do not sit easily with political systems and processes in non-democratic countries. As such, we might suspect that the HS concept might not be well suited to Chinese understandings and discourses of security. And indeed, this is partly the case -it is not a term that is widely used in official policy discourses, and as we shall see, there 2 is a strand of academic thought that sees it as another way in which the West tries to promote its human rights agendas and impose its liberal preferences on places like China under the false banner of "universalism" (Hu 2011).But this rejectionist position does not tell the full story. While freedom from fear forms a core part of the HS agenda associated with Norwegian and Canadian approaches, preferences associated with Japanese conceptions stress the importance of freedom from want instead. This has provided a conceptual ambiguity that allows Chinese analysts to focus on socio-economic agendas rather than more "problematic" political-legal ones. Moreover, a series of crises since the late 1990s have resulted in a rethink of what constitutes the nature of security, and what constitute the major security challenges not just to China, but also in China. As part of this process, issues relating...

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The Evolution of International Security Studies

Cited by 710 publications

References 1,596 publications

La promoción de la cultura de defensa en las universidades españolas: Evaluación de diseño del Programa de Colaboración del Ministerio de Defensa

La promoción de la cultura de defensa en las universidades españolas: Evaluación de diseño del Programa de Colaboración del Ministerio de Defensa

Genocide Prevention and Western National Security: The Limitations of Making R2P All About Us

Debating Human Security in China: Towards Discursive Power?

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